I'm 48, so a little bit older than voyager, and some of my hardware doesn't function either. For instance, as of a little over 5 years ago, I no longer have a functional pancreas.
Nar, Motorola brick, you could drop it in water and it would still work. I finally bought a Motorola smart phone and it is a great phone, has glass screen not plastic and still clear despite dropping it several times.
The computer on voyager 1 has about 68 kB of memory. It's amazing that NASA can still do cutting edge science with a computer that's about as powerful as a talking birthday card, even while it's on the edge of the solar system. The software engineers for the voyager program must be some of the best in the world.
@@MrSimonw58the irony of you posting your comment of about a dozen characters in length using a device with at least several GB of memory. That is, our current consumer devices might have about 6 orders of magnitude more memory than voyager. can we take a moment to appreciate a million times more memory than voyager (to play video games etc) is wild 🤯
@@rustshoo5068 It's really not what could _ever_ be described as crystal clear. I'd probably describe it more like a vanishing whisper in black static. The bitrate has dropped to around 0.16k/sec and the signal heard on Earth comes in at less than a trillionth of a watt in strength. At present only the largest dishes of the Deep Space Network are capable of catching the signal at all and even they frequently don't get all the data first time around due to it being broken up by the background static of the cosmos. Thankfully Voyager 1 constantly repeats its data. Voyager's transmissions also require digital processing to enhance the signal to noise ratio in order to make it useful. The technology to do that didn't even exist when Voyager was launched and its creators probably didn't expect the probe's signals to remain detectable in the 2020s.
@@CountScarlioniI live about 20km from one of these dishes. It sits in an empty field. There are signs on the footpaths saying “beware of snakes”. And inside there is a large screen which lists all the probes and missions they communicate with and what time of day. It even tells you what they are talking to at that very moment. Sometimes it’s the Mars Rovers and orbiters, but it could be Juno and Jupiter, or New Horizons and Pluto. 9pm tonight it will be talking to Voyager 2 - that’s 20.4 billion km away. It’s quite a bizarre feeling looking out the window at the 64m dish and knowing it’s talking to something outside our solar system…… Wish they did something about the snakes though.
We will likely create a new form of propulsion that allows us to catch up to voyager then we will bring it back and put it in a museum sadly none of us will see that day or it's incredibly likely we won't but I suppose never say never
@@YellowKurt Speed of light is a constant cop on interstellar highway… Even at maximum light speed, Voyager 1 would take 4 years to reach to Proxima - our nearest neighbouring star. But I get what you mean: we may find ways to built a device that will zoom past Voyager 1 to reach destination before it.
I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!
One of america's biggest scam (next to apolo 11).. the television and radio signals were very weak when the voyager 1 was deployed.. so how the hell can it still send signals for being so far given the technology it has.. stop scamming people please....
In 2021 NASA put out a job application for someone who could program in Fortran 5. Some un named person took the job and here we are, they got a spacecraft from the 70's working again from 15 Billion miles away. Bravo un named hero.
Oh, I assure you that FORTRAN IV was for ground data systems, most of which were long ago "updated" to Sun/SPARC/Solaris platforms (FORTRAN 77). Onboard is purely assembly for the custom processors.
@@NightElveee HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA THATS A REAL KNEE SLAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM DYING OF LAUGHTER YOU'RE SO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
From Nasa's website: "It will take about 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it. Voyager 2 is heading away from the Sun about 36 degrees out of the ecliptic plane (plane of the planets) to the south, toward the constellations of Sagittarius and Pavo. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 2 will be closer to another star than our own Sun, coming within about 1.7 light years of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation of Andromeda."
Which means that it technically isn't in interstellar space yet and won't be until it reaches the outer edge of the Oort cloud, which will happen in approximately a great many thousands of years after we'll all be dead.
@@bwhog it’s in the interstellar medium AFAIK, which counts as “interstellar space” as it is different from the interplanetary medium. But like you said, it hasn’t really left the solar system per-se
@@mistertagnanHopefully we won't have to wait that long and, within 100 years, we'll simply be able to simply fly out and go get it and stick it in a museum. 😜
I love that the Dr's background has the new space telescope, dinosaurs, something about OCD, yoga skeleton, and a moose. Also, fixing a computer that has outlived it's creators and is also billions of miles a way is also cool.
@@JaSon-wc4pn plastic is made from trees and other vegetation that was not broken down by bacteria. I believe most oil predates dinosaurs by a few hundred million years. And remember, The T-Rex was closer in time to us humans now, than they were to the Stegosaurus. So we are talking MASSIVE timeframes..
This is the kind of thing that makes me angry with people that attack NASA and say it is a waste of money. "They do so many wonderful things, but sometime things don't go according to plan. Our space program is the best there is and worth every penny. Even when things go wrong there is a lot to learn!
Yes, there is “waste” of money because not every scientific research leads to practical applications. BUT if you would STOP all scientific researches because statistically most of them do not bring improvements in our lives, then there would NEVER be any future improvement…. You can’t tell in advance which research will bring practical results. This is the part that these people complaining about “waste of money” do not understand. (And the fact that knowing more about our surroundings tell us more about ourselves too.)
For those who are interested, there is a documentary called "It's quieter in the Twilight" in which you get to meet some of the scientists and engineer's who are still working on the project and the decisions they have to make in order for Voyager 1 to continue on it's epic voyage to the stars. Highly recommended!
that we can still ping the damn thing at all is mind blowing enough. This has been an astounding fact to me for over 20 years - Id never imagined that we'd still be able to track the thing at this point in time
Acquaintances of mine can't seem to grasp the significance until I use this analogy: Imagine being able to see or detect a lit candle from 1K miles/1.61K km away.
what a brilliant interview - decent questions and answered without interruption. others at the BBC take note, this is how you conduct a science interview.
It is a great tribute to the ingenuity of the engineers who designed Voyager that the craft is still working getting on for half a century after launch. It is certainly one of the greatest engineering achievements, ever.
Voyager 1 is nothing short of a scientific miracle. I watched its launch as a teenager, "saw" it live on television as it left our solar system, and it still lives in my heart like a mechanical family member.
Is there a sci-fi story where Voyager-1 and 2 are discovered by aliens and sent back to us? Or one where they are the last remnant of humanity in some distant future?
@@cressmanfoster V-GER, I remembered that as I read your comment. That would be a pretty awesome turn of events, an advanced race finding it and upgrading it to get back here.
They've popped up in several scifi stories being encountered by aliens. The first Star Trek movie being the most notable example. However aliens will never find the Voyager probes. The real fate of Voyager 1 is to end up in the Smithsonian. In the coming centuries, nuclear propulsion technologies will make their way to space, and humans will rapidly establish manned and/or robotic outposts across the solar system using ships that accelerate at a constant 1G velocity. Such ships would be so fast that they would be able to journey out to Voyager 1's location in a few weeks. Some space-archaeologists will decide to have the Voyagers, and many other ancient space relics collected, brought back and put on museum pedestals.
Just to rain on this parade: Both spacecraft are slowly being eroded away by high-velocity impacts with micron-sized (think smoke) dust. Our best measurements indicate about one such impact per hour which produces a tiny divot and a little plasma explosion we detect with the PWS instrument. If that rate were to persist, there wouldn't be much of anything left in several million years.
The cameraman who went with voyager 1 and has been videoing it for years should receive a nobel price definitely cous he keeps getting beautiful shots of the probe...
@@roberts7961 "Islamist's" is that right, we also have a lot of native people are thick as shit, and they just as bad, I say kick you the fuck out and the UK will be golden.
Wouldn't make a difference. They would already know our location through the decades' worth of the radio signals we've been chucking out, and if they're clever enough to make it to Voyager 1 or 2, one more light day to earth would be a blip.
To be fair, the golden record was mostly for us Earthlings. If we're really really lucky, our technology will advance quickly enough to catch up with the Voyagers and return them to museums. Or, maybe, they'll be the most sought-after space salvage of all time. (I'll be passing trajectory data on to my progeny. ;-) )
It will take Voyager 1 16700 years to reach Proxima the closest star from earth. And we are quite certain there are no aliens over there. So we are safe. Also, a fun fact is that scientists expect Voyager 1 to survive earth by at least a trillion years. So it might be one of the only trace of our existence for an incredibly long time.
Because spacecraft have dead-simple, potato-quality computers and longevity is the absolute biggest concern in mission design (because you can’t fix it).
If they built it today it would shut off in less than a month because you didn't renew your subscription and then in less than 10 years it would break. I mean it could be fixed but the repair price is about the cost of new model which apparently will be "better" and "last longer".
Let's just all hope that they're not an invading species and they figure out where it came from. Let's also hope that none of the sounds on that golden disk are considered insults in their language...
In the grand scheme of things this object just travelled a distance let’s say 1 schoolbus from your home if we think our universe as the size of our entire galaxy so there’s very little chance of detecting life I think 🤔
@@DK-gy7ll We've been sending a pretty much constant "Hi, we're here !" signal out into the universe in every direction _at the speed of light_ for about a hundred years. So one golden record that's vanishingly unlikely to ever be found is the very least of our problems in that regard.
It's amazing we have people getting paid full time, running around to work on cool things without expectation of making a profit or any economic return.
Every time we hear more from Voyager, I’m just amazed at how awesome it is that we can still communicate with a machine we’ve sent billions of miles away over decades.
The voyagers relied on gravity assists from the outer planets based on certain alignments. Chances for another Grand Tour using similar planetary alignments won't happen until at least 2150. And by that point tech will have advanced significantly. The only other option is to burn way more fuel than anything else before and that's just not feasible.
@@inventor121 we have other means of accelerating craft which are feasible. Laser assisted solar sails for example as proposed for the solar gravitational lense project and breakthrough slingshot.
@@inventor121 Also, there have been quite a few missions of similar impact to the Voyagers. The Mars rovers for example, or Osiris Rex, the asteroid booping sample return mission, or the James Webb Space Telescope. There's been no shortage of more modern Voyager equivalents.
Amazing. The fact humankind produced a device that is now cruising through interstellar space is amazing, and should receive more awe and amazement in popular culture than it currently does.
NASA: We’re the smartest government agency out there. We sent a man to the moon! Also NASA: *forgets to maintain archaic code, doesn’t realize it’s a software issue for decades, and doesn’t do anything to fix it until it’s almost to late. But seriously, what is our generation coming to; when organizations like NASA are failing us in there endeavors within space exploration? EDIT: To be explicit, the chips on Voyager 1 were malfunctioning for years, and NASA fixed them with a simple software-patch; which altered the program that managed the chips onboard Voyager 1. If somebody is telling ya that this was only a hardware issue, then they don't know what they're talking about, and they've probably never worked in IT a day in their life.
@@Hobbes746 the reporter in the video just explained that the chips weren’t routing properly. The solution was software based. But the issue itself was hardware related. Did you even listen to the video?
What are you even talking about? The communication failed last November because of a hardware issue. And then they fixed the hardware problem with a software patch. Before November 2023 Voyager had worked for 40 years flawlessly. .
@@TheWeedShop-r5r No amount of software maintenance can prevent electronic circuits from failing. You were claiming Voyager’s problem was due to an issue in the software that NASA had failed to spot for “decades”, which is not at all the case.
Way to go Voyager team! it's an astonishing computer architecture that allows for such a repair, conceptually ahead of its time for sure. Reminds a little of the human brain where different parts can compensate for smaller localized damages in other parts. I hope we'll see Voyager's upcoming 50th anniversary still operational!
In Star Trek, Voyager 6 made it to an advanced civilisation and only kept going after some serious upgrades from the aliens. I don't think the writers expected Voyager 1 to be advanced enough to keep going.
Voyager 1: "I GOT ONE MORE IN ME"
"I didn't hear no bell"
I'm not leaving!
Ah Vygr live long and learn
they jailed the cameraman from fox 7 too😂😂😂. AIPACmake american Communis is real😂
@@ricyman5110 tf are you talking about this is about a space probe
To be fair to Voyager 1, I'm not even 30 yet and I barely function.
Anymore
I'm 48, so a little bit older than voyager, and some of my hardware doesn't function either. For instance, as of a little over 5 years ago, I no longer have a functional pancreas.
@janparchanski9242 because of a glitch in my immune system
But you didnt cost millions and millions of dollars to be made and maintained...
4 and a half decades is 45
Voyager. The Nokia phone of probes.
Maybe that's why aliens haven't visited. They think, 'Damn if their PROBES are built like this..."
@@sixstanger00 lmao good one
You sir are the Human of Microbes 🦠
@@Alex-o4o1feh
Nar, Motorola brick, you could drop it in water and it would still work. I finally bought a Motorola smart phone and it is a great phone, has glass screen not plastic and still clear despite dropping it several times.
I'm glad they built it in the 70s, otherwise programmers had to click skip ad every they need to talk to Voyager.
Interstellar spacecraft have premium subscriptions.
@@221b-l3t But you´ll still be charged 9.99 to unlock all of the data.
@@221b-l3t One day baby, one day
@@221b-l3t Interstellar spacecraft now have Stories! Click here to learn more.
Ha ha ha!
Billions of miles away and still sending signals
And my bank's OTP has still not reached me
Is it from SBI ?
😂 good one ☺️
😂😂😂@@smrfk
the world if they got rid of OTP🌞
😂This one got me
The computer on voyager 1 has about 68 kB of memory. It's amazing that NASA can still do cutting edge science with a computer that's about as powerful as a talking birthday card, even while it's on the edge of the solar system. The software engineers for the voyager program must be some of the best in the world.
Its like your laptop talking to a simple calculator
68kb is a lot
Happy birthday 😂😂🎉
@@MrSimonw58the irony of you posting your comment of about a dozen characters in length using a device with at least several GB of memory.
That is, our current consumer devices might have about 6 orders of magnitude more memory than voyager.
can we take a moment to appreciate a million times more memory than voyager (to play video games etc) is wild 🤯
@@MrSimonw58 In what world is 68kB a lot? You understand what kB is?
Incredible. This now interstellar spacecraft was built in the bloody 1970's!
Like the music back then, the chirps are coming back, melodiously, crystal clear.
ForbiddenPlanetB That is just so cool.
@@rustshoo5068 It's really not what could _ever_ be described as crystal clear. I'd probably describe it more like a vanishing whisper in black static.
The bitrate has dropped to around 0.16k/sec and the signal heard on Earth comes in at less than a trillionth of a watt in strength. At present only the largest dishes of the Deep Space Network are capable of catching the signal at all and even they frequently don't get all the data first time around due to it being broken up by the background static of the cosmos. Thankfully Voyager 1 constantly repeats its data.
Voyager's transmissions also require digital processing to enhance the signal to noise ratio in order to make it useful. The technology to do that didn't even exist when Voyager was launched and its creators probably didn't expect the probe's signals to remain detectable in the 2020s.
@@CountScarlioniI live about 20km from one of these dishes. It sits in an empty field. There are signs on the footpaths saying “beware of snakes”.
And inside there is a large screen which lists all the probes and missions they communicate with and what time of day. It even tells you what they are talking to at that very moment.
Sometimes it’s the Mars Rovers and orbiters, but it could be Juno and Jupiter, or New Horizons and Pluto. 9pm tonight it will be talking to Voyager 2 - that’s 20.4 billion km away.
It’s quite a bizarre feeling looking out the window at the 64m dish and knowing it’s talking to something outside our solar system……
Wish they did something about the snakes though.
What a great time to be alive !!!
45 years and it's almost 1 light day away - 65,000 years to get to Alpha at that speed
Mind boggling.
1000 years from now
they will make a device,
that will reduce that time frame to 1 second
We will likely create a new form of propulsion that allows us to catch up to voyager then we will bring it back and put it in a museum sadly none of us will see that day or it's incredibly likely we won't but I suppose never say never
@@YellowKurt Speed of light is a constant cop on interstellar highway… Even at maximum light speed, Voyager 1 would take 4 years to reach to Proxima - our nearest neighbouring star. But I get what you mean: we may find ways to built a device that will zoom past Voyager 1 to reach destination before it.
Let's hope humans will not destroy the civilization in the next 100 years first@@YellowKurt
I was 9 years old when the Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, and I remember being excited about it as a kid. I will turn 56 years old in three weeks, and it is unbelievable that the spacecraft is still going and working!
Well, whippersnapper, I was in college when it launched, but also thought it was great.
It's not working.. but the signal it have send years back have travelled all this year and reached now that's it...
Happy birthday when it arrives!
I was born in 1978 so I was -1 years old.
One of america's biggest scam (next to apolo 11).. the television and radio signals were very weak when the voyager 1 was deployed.. so how the hell can it still send signals for being so far given the technology it has.. stop scamming people please....
In 2021 NASA put out a job application for someone who could program in Fortran 5. Some un named person took the job and here we are, they got a spacecraft from the 70's working again from 15 Billion miles away. Bravo un named hero.
Oh, I assure you that FORTRAN IV was for ground data systems, most of which were long ago "updated" to Sun/SPARC/Solaris platforms (FORTRAN 77). Onboard is purely assembly for the custom processors.
I also read the same thing in other video but for assembly coding language.
@@Space-Audio So Voyerger is updated in ...... Fortran 5 ... they havent been doing system updates to java mate
I doubt it's written in Fortran. Probably it's BAL or direct machine language. They want every bit to count.
They lying
And my iPhones stops working every 4 years
That's intentional though
Well if you paid 200 million dollars and made it the size of a small car I bet you could get your iPhone to last longer
Radioactive batteries man
Planned obsolescence.
If it was made by apple it would have received a terminal update years ago.
"what on earth is it sending back"
nothing from earth I should imagine
Your moms shock waves data everytime she gets out of bed.
@@NightElveee HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA THATS A REAL KNEE SLAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM DYING OF LAUGHTER YOU'RE SO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@@fargoth391 best commend i have seen
@@fargoth391never use these emojis again
@@5655nasirever
From Nasa's website:
"It will take about 300 years for Voyager 2 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Voyager 2 is heading away from the Sun about 36 degrees out of the ecliptic plane (plane of the planets) to the south, toward the constellations of Sagittarius and Pavo. In about 40,000 years, Voyager 2 will be closer to another star than our own Sun, coming within about 1.7 light years of a star called Ross 248, a small star in the constellation of Andromeda."
Which means that it technically isn't in interstellar space yet and won't be until it reaches the outer edge of the Oort cloud, which will happen in approximately a great many thousands of years after we'll all be dead.
How a star from another galaxy is only 1 ly away😂
@@zikkicharade You don't have good reading skills.... Read it again.
@@bwhog it’s in the interstellar medium AFAIK, which counts as “interstellar space” as it is different from the interplanetary medium. But like you said, it hasn’t really left the solar system per-se
@@mistertagnanHopefully we won't have to wait that long and, within 100 years, we'll simply be able to simply fly out and go get it and stick it in a museum. 😜
Voyager 1: sends alien signals
NASA scientist: it's sending gibberish
We know it wasn’t alien signals. The signal consisted of all zeroes, i.e. no data at all.
I am an expert. Black holes are really cloaking devices. Aliens are just waiting for global warming to boil us off the Planet before they visit
@@artofsam NANU NANU. 🖖🏻
We left disks so they know everything about earth to come and concor us! Yaaaay!!!!
@@tommytheshimigami There's no guarantee they knw what disks are.. it might not even exist on their planet
V-ger trying to contact the creator.
"So, where's it going?"
"Where no one has gone before."
Live long and prosper!😉
That was actually Voyager 6...which doesn't exist..
Yet lol @@panaderofilms
It's just going lol
@@eastofwarden currently everywhere it is going, nobody else has gone before....
Your car's key fob has more memory than the computer on voyager 1. Imagine that.
*edit: i learned that from the Astrum YT channel. shout-out!
waste of key fob or memory?????
Apollo computers were silly small too. Those guys were truly amazing! 🎉🎉. Doing so much with so little.
Well yes, but Voyager's memory has to withstand cosmic rays.
Pretty sure a keyfob has no RAM. What it has is ROM. And a very small amount, smaller than 68kB. More like 4kB.
@@espressomatici read that they range from 4kb to 100kb and some even have a few mbs
I love that the Dr's background has the new space telescope, dinosaurs, something about OCD, yoga skeleton, and a moose. Also, fixing a computer that has outlived it's creators and is also billions of miles a way is also cool.
Dr Jen Millard is great! You can hear more of her on the Awesome Astronomy podcast
The plastic dino is made from Real Dino matter.
Even Harry Potter books are there
@@JaSon-wc4pn plastic is made from trees and other vegetation that was not broken down by bacteria. I believe most oil predates dinosaurs by a few hundred million years.
And remember, The T-Rex was closer in time to us humans now, than they were to the Stegosaurus.
So we are talking MASSIVE timeframes..
Better than having a dildo!!!!
This is the kind of thing that makes me angry with people that attack NASA and say it is a waste of money. "They do so many wonderful things, but sometime things don't go according to plan. Our space program is the best there is and worth every penny. Even when things go wrong there is a lot to learn!
Yes, there is “waste” of money because not every scientific research leads to practical applications. BUT if you would STOP all scientific researches because statistically most of them do not bring improvements in our lives, then there would NEVER be any future improvement…. You can’t tell in advance which research will bring practical results. This is the part that these people complaining about “waste of money” do not understand. (And the fact that knowing more about our surroundings tell us more about ourselves too.)
@@Jean-PierreGrenier-yl3wp Well said!
NASA hides alot of information too. They know about UFO's and everytime it comes on camera they cut the feed "due to technical difficulties".
we should spend that money on the military
@@jackthaddeus314 There is plenty of money to go around. We don't need uneducated morons like t-rump telling people that science is not important
NASA: We have a message from Voyager1
Voyager1: "YEAAAHHHHH BOIIII"
🤭🤭🤭
Voyager 1: Golden record
San-Ti: "Do Not Answer"
I just finished episode 5 tonight.
Grandad knew some stuff, eh kids.
Yeah, and then forgot where he put it. 😂
tell me you're projecting your personal frustrations without telling me you're projecting your personal frustrations.
There's nothing extraordinary about it.
Just a compressor converting uranium decay and using a stupid dish to beam numbers to earth
Legend has it grandad landed in a tincan on the moon
Four more years. Pause.
These guys took we'll fix it in prod to the next level
😂
the ultimate debugging in production engineering.
Software engineering is not impressive
@@Karuska22pssounds like you are jealous you don't know anything about it.
@@N1ckZ it's really not impressive. It's so mainstream now
For those who are interested, there is a documentary called "It's quieter in the Twilight" in which you get to meet some of the scientists and engineer's who are still working on the project and the decisions they have to make in order for Voyager 1 to continue on it's epic voyage to the stars. Highly recommended!
Thank you for the info, I'll definitely watch it!
Billions of miles away and still sending signals,
but I can't even get my son to get me a beer from the fridge
Man you gotta get up and get it yourself cuz those calories ain’t gonna burn themselves lol
I was eighteen when Voyager-1 was launched in 1977. Now I'm sixty five.
I was 16.. seems so surreal so many decades have gone by. I'm very proud of the Voyagers and glad they can at least get some contact with one of them.
I was dead yet.
@@crazyaces4042 Damn ur 63 and look that good? what do you eat XD
The coders who still probably write in assembly i guess are doing a good job
Fortran 5
That's what you call a job for life at this point 😂
Imagine if aliens went and fixed it for us lol
happend in star trek 1
Which race of aliens?
@@Wtfisahandle344 hopefully not the Borg
Talking about Vger.
They laughing believe in evolution
Did you try turning it off and on again🤪😂🤣
To be honest, they tried it once a few years ago to solve another problem.
Get out 😐👉
😂👍
The Russians tried that with the Phobos probe, and it didn't end well for them.
@@Trey4x4 🤣😂
We need more news articles like this. Absolutely amazing.
Good to hear Voyager is still alive. Kudos to the team.
that we can still ping the damn thing at all is mind blowing enough. This has been an astounding fact to me for over 20 years - Id never imagined that we'd still be able to track the thing at this point in time
Acquaintances of mine can't seem to grasp the significance until I use this analogy: Imagine being able to see or detect a lit candle from 1K miles/1.61K km away.
What a fantastic, clear, polite and friendly explanation. Great guest ✨
what a brilliant interview - decent questions and answered without interruption. others at the BBC take note, this is how you conduct a science interview.
It is a great tribute to the ingenuity of the engineers who designed Voyager that the craft is still working getting on for half a century after launch. It is certainly one of the greatest engineering achievements, ever.
0:07 he struggled to say “spouting gibberish” you can see the conflict between his brain and mouth when he says it 😂
Wow! Its up and running again! Amazing work NASA!
Carl Sagan would be proud.
Unmanned mission: Already left the solar system.
Manned mission: Haven't been back to the Moon in 56 years.
Easier to replace dead computer rather than a dead person.
52 years (last human on the moon was during Apollo 17 in December 1972).
(but yep, still not a great record)
After someone dies on the moon, we'll never look at it the same way again.
We never sent men onto the moon
@@wattsmichaelestfu the adults are talking
Voyager 1 is nothing short of a scientific miracle. I watched its launch as a teenager, "saw" it live on television as it left our solar system, and it still lives in my heart like a mechanical family member.
Voyager 1: "I didn't hear no bell"
The Voyager Golden Disks have more memory capacity than Voyager ...
It's static memory. Not the same thing.
@@Livinghighandwisestill
And, of course, cred for the genius who put the gold platter on there, Carl Sagan!
Is there a sci-fi story where Voyager-1 and 2 are discovered by aliens and sent back to us? Or one where they are the last remnant of humanity in some distant future?
several sci-fi stories have used the Voyager probes in their plot: one of the Star Trek movies from the 1980s comes to mind.
That is the plot of the first Star Trek movie. Although the probe is called Voyager 6.
@@cressmanfoster V-GER, I remembered that as I read your comment. That would be a pretty awesome turn of events, an advanced race finding it and upgrading it to get back here.
They've popped up in several scifi stories being encountered by aliens. The first Star Trek movie being the most notable example. However aliens will never find the Voyager probes.
The real fate of Voyager 1 is to end up in the Smithsonian.
In the coming centuries, nuclear propulsion technologies will make their way to space, and humans will rapidly establish manned and/or robotic outposts across the solar system using ships that accelerate at a constant 1G velocity. Such ships would be so fast that they would be able to journey out to Voyager 1's location in a few weeks. Some space-archaeologists will decide to have the Voyagers, and many other ancient space relics collected, brought back and put on museum pedestals.
Just to rain on this parade: Both spacecraft are slowly being eroded away by high-velocity impacts with micron-sized (think smoke) dust. Our best measurements indicate about one such impact per hour which produces a tiny divot and a little plasma explosion we detect with the PWS instrument. If that rate were to persist, there wouldn't be much of anything left in several million years.
“What on earth is it sending back”? But it’s not on earth sir 😂. I don’t know, that was just funny the way he said it.
The cameraman who went with voyager 1 and has been videoing it for years should receive a nobel price definitely cous he keeps getting beautiful shots of the probe...
Just unbelievable.
Some people think so. They are usually really knowledgeable people 😉 /s
The San-Ti just made the repair works. Thanks to them...
Imagine voyager sends back: DO NOT ANSWER!!! DO NOT ANSWER!!! DO NOT ANSWER!!!
@@syntheticsandwich190 yo i got chills
@@causticchan4617 You need to watch last stand (ai short film) exactly this happens!
@@syntheticsandwich190let's hope that this isn't received by a scientist who had lost all faith in humanity
They fixed the bugs? ;)
Being of the same age, all I can say is, keep on chugging along there my friend!
Shout out to the people who designed, built, launched, and continue to monitor this thing. Amazing feat for humanity.
0:28 Hey look at the Jogi skeleton on the book shelf and the kool Dinos!? O.O LOL
apparently we now have 0.01% more chance of finding aliens
Oh you are too generous 😂
Edit: damn autocorrect
We already have them in the UK, Islamist's
@@roberts7961 "Islamist's" is that right, we also have a lot of native people are thick as shit, and they just as bad, I say kick you the fuck out and the UK will be golden.
What will they think of us?
a generous number lol
Gulp.. not sure if telling aliens where to look for us is such a great idea.
Wouldn't make a difference. They would already know our location through the decades' worth of the radio signals we've been chucking out, and if they're clever enough to make it to Voyager 1 or 2, one more light day to earth would be a blip.
To be fair, the golden record was mostly for us Earthlings. If we're really really lucky, our technology will advance quickly enough to catch up with the Voyagers and return them to museums. Or, maybe, they'll be the most sought-after space salvage of all time. (I'll be passing trajectory data on to my progeny. ;-) )
It will take Voyager 1 16700 years to reach Proxima the closest star from earth. And we are quite certain there are no aliens over there.
So we are safe.
Also, a fun fact is that scientists expect Voyager 1 to survive earth by at least a trillion years. So it might be one of the only trace of our existence for an incredibly long time.
Right like Voyager baby you on your own. By time they come, I hope I’m light years decEASED.
“After months of sending gibberish” Id like to believe an alien repaired Voyager for us :)
U Still have that connection for that million miles but my internet still sh!t 😂
it was launched in 1977 ... basically a dial up modem in basic programming and its still working is amazing in itself
V.ger is back! 😉
Makes you wonder why apple retires there laptops after 10 years, perhaps they should employ some NASA engineers 😂
You really wonder?
🤑
To make you buy new ones. Mercedes once almost went bankrupt because their cars wouldn't break down and no-one bought a new one because of that.
Because spacecraft have dead-simple, potato-quality computers and longevity is the absolute biggest concern in mission design (because you can’t fix it).
If they built it today it would shut off in less than a month because you didn't renew your subscription and then in less than 10 years it would break. I mean it could be fixed but the repair price is about the cost of new model which apparently will be "better" and "last longer".
It would then sell Voyagers data to the highest bidder
Voyager 1: "I Didn't Hear No Bell!" 🤣
Incredible. If you can, find the documentary The Farthest. A surprisingly touching film about these incredible craft. So glad they got it back online.
The thought of some advanced civilization picking up the Voyager and decoding our information, all the way out there, gives me goosebumps.
Let's just all hope that they're not an invading species and they figure out where it came from. Let's also hope that none of the sounds on that golden disk are considered insults in their language...
@@DK-gy7ll Easy to figure out since there is a star map of earth's location in there too.
In the grand scheme of things this object just travelled a distance let’s say 1 schoolbus from your home if we think our universe as the size of our entire galaxy so there’s very little chance of detecting life I think 🤔
@@DK-gy7ll We've been sending a pretty much constant "Hi, we're here !" signal out into the universe in every direction _at the speed of light_ for about a hundred years.
So one golden record that's vanishingly unlikely to ever be found is the very least of our problems in that regard.
It's amazing we have people getting paid full time, running around to work on cool things without expectation of making a profit or any economic return.
Science return, human knowledge return, is more than economic return.
Not all progress is measured in dollars.
Awesome!
Every time we hear more from Voyager, I’m just amazed at how awesome it is that we can still communicate with a machine we’ve sent billions of miles away over decades.
Voyager is a beast of a satellite
Voyager is a construct of your imagination
Im very glad this has been fixed.
I do think a Alien did the fix.
cuz u a bot
Amazingly insulting to the team of extremely talented engineers who have dedicated most of their lives to keeping this spacecraft alive
@@alt8791 well said
*Never understood why there are no plans for Voyager 3 and 4 with modern tech*
Cos it’s all a lie my man
The voyagers relied on gravity assists from the outer planets based on certain alignments. Chances for another Grand Tour using similar planetary alignments won't happen until at least 2150. And by that point tech will have advanced significantly. The only other option is to burn way more fuel than anything else before and that's just not feasible.
They've chucked that out too with all the previous knowledge of the moon landings 😂 Just chucked in the bin.
@@inventor121 we have other means of accelerating craft which are feasible. Laser assisted solar sails for example as proposed for the solar gravitational lense project and breakthrough slingshot.
@@inventor121 Also, there have been quite a few missions of similar impact to the Voyagers. The Mars rovers for example, or Osiris Rex, the asteroid booping sample return mission, or the James Webb Space Telescope. There's been no shortage of more modern Voyager equivalents.
don 't forget Voyager 1 made the foto called: the pale blue dot. Earth photographed from millions of kilometers away..
This amazing young lady always manages to explain things in a way we can understand. All that info and a lovely friendly manner. Fab interview ! 😊
Amazing. The fact humankind produced a device that is now cruising through interstellar space is amazing, and should receive more awe and amazement in popular culture than it currently does.
Some day, we will catch it in space.
That is an interesting concept.
Hope its not some shitty future where the rich control everything. Some rich asshat with the golden disk on a plaque on the wall of his space yacht.
An alien pressed ctrl alt delete
NASA: We’re the smartest government agency out there. We sent a man to the moon!
Also NASA: *forgets to maintain archaic code, doesn’t realize it’s a software issue for decades, and doesn’t do anything to fix it until it’s almost to late.
But seriously, what is our generation coming to; when organizations like NASA are failing us in there endeavors within space exploration?
EDIT: To be explicit, the chips on Voyager 1 were malfunctioning for years, and NASA fixed them with a simple software-patch; which altered the program that managed the chips onboard Voyager 1. If somebody is telling ya that this was only a hardware issue, then they don't know what they're talking about, and they've probably never worked in IT a day in their life.
Nope. Voyager 1 failed because one of the memory chips in one of its computers malfunctioned. This is not a software issue.
@@Hobbes746 the reporter in the video just explained that the chips weren’t routing properly. The solution was software based. But the issue itself was hardware related. Did you even listen to the video?
It is hard to maintain stuff, I know, the old engineers I worked with left poor notebooks with many things missing.
What are you even talking about?
The communication failed last November because of a hardware issue. And then they fixed the hardware problem with a software patch. Before November 2023 Voyager had worked for 40 years flawlessly.
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@@TheWeedShop-r5r No amount of software maintenance can prevent electronic circuits from failing. You were claiming Voyager’s problem was due to an issue in the software that NASA had failed to spot for “decades”, which is not at all the case.
Meanwhile my cellphone do not last 3 years... 😂
Alien: "I cant make any sense of this alien message, its like its in 55 different languages!"
Tech was much better back then this reminds me of when the tv doesn’t work so you bang the top and works again 😂
3:47 this gives me chills 🥺
Way to go Voyager team! it's an astonishing computer architecture that allows for such a repair, conceptually ahead of its time for sure. Reminds a little of the human brain where different parts can compensate for smaller localized damages in other parts. I hope we'll see Voyager's upcoming 50th anniversary still operational!
@0:50 As a person who is also 4-1/2 decades old, I can confirm that not all systems work quite the way they did when freshly manufactured.
Props to the engineer that went out there and fixed it and came back alive
Sometimes the simpler the device, the less for things to go wrong, best way to explore deep space, less complicated, more durable
Voyager 1 : "I didn't hear no bell..."
In Star Trek, Voyager 6 made it to an advanced civilisation and only kept going after some serious upgrades from the aliens. I don't think the writers expected Voyager 1 to be advanced enough to keep going.
2:06 Don't you mean, "What not on earth?" 🙃
Voyager 1: I AIN’T HEAR NO BELL
BBC: Voyager has been operating for 3 1/2 decades longer than expected, and it's starting to break down
Me in my late 30s: Sounds about right.
So love this mission, I was a kid when it launched, along with it's sister, and always interested in news about them.
Voyager one wakes up. "Hold my beer" 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This machine is extraordinary by every measure. Kudos to the men and women who developed this machine, and are continuing to work on it still.
Communicating with something over 15 billion miles away, yet I don't have cell phone service in Target🤔
My cell phone signal just dropped and i only get a 1 year warranty on my electronics.
Voyager 1 replies back faster than most people here on Earth 😂
It's just fascinating that it still in active
Little guy is working hard up there🥺 just won’t let us down
Voyager 1 : "I aint heard no bell".
I was there for the launch. I never expected it’s a last this long.
Aliens will accidentally find it and will
Communicate with it, the we will get the shock of our lives 😂😂😂
“what on earth is it sending back” 😂
Geez that old thing is still going strong after all this time, impressive engineering.
It went quiet for a long time then it started just repeating the same code information... I'm Happy we have it back